Stabbed burglar gets state prison term
A Clarion County man who was stabbed several times after breaking into a home in Fairview Township was sentenced Wednesday to 5 to 10 years in state prison.
Patrick C. Bookwalter, 36, of Rimersburg was given credit for a year and 36 days time-served by President Judge Thomas Doerr, after a brief hearing in which one of the victims in the break-in, Savannah M. Blust, told Doerr that she wanted to “see as much justice as possible.”
Blust, 24, told Doerr that she “kinda lives in fear” after the events of June 8, 2017, when Bookwalter and two other men broke into her Petrolia Road home in an attempt to steal proceeds of an illegal drug business.
“I don’t even like leaving my window open on a nice summer night,” Blust told Doerr Wednesday.
Bookwalter on Wednesday apologized for the break-in and told Doerr that he regrets participating in the attempted robbery.
“My actions that night will haunt me for many years to come as well,” he said.
